41.   Former Israeli chief of staff Ehud Barak is to be appointed foreign minister in the new cabinet of Prime Minister Shimon Peres, an outgoing minister said Tuesday.

42.   The outgoing minister of social welfare, relief and resettlement was named culture minister, while the culture minister was appointed to the security management committee.

43.   The opposition is pressuring him to drop all outgoing ministers.

44.   The outgoing minister irked North Korea in earlier attempts at talks.

45.   The outgoing ministers remain in office in a caretaker role pending the appointment of a new government.

46.   Toledo praised the three outgoing ministers at a short press conference.

47.   Kim immediately named legislator Sohn Hak-Kyu of the ruling New Korea Party to replace the outgoing minister, the spokesman said.

48.   Later Saturday outgoing Spanish interior minister Juan Alberto Belloch said Urrutikoetxea was en route for Madrid where he would be handed over to Spanish legal authorities.

49.   Meanwhile on the political front, Peres started initial talks with outgoing ministers and party representatives, especially the religious movements, to boost the government coalition.

50.   Public Service Minister Eric Adriko did not contest the election because voters in his northwestern electorate supported Ssemogerere in the presidential poll, but all other outgoing ministers stood.